Political ideologies and movements

Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries, Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle classes in their own words throughout the course of the Second World War.

How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "e;good"e; democracies and "e;bad"e; authoritarian regimes.

Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation.

Over the past twenty years, the debate between neutrality and perfectionism has been at the center of political philosophy.

An examination of poverty dynamics and developmental failure, shifting emphasis from development as control to development as coping strategy.

For most of World War II, British tank development remained faithful to the design philosophy inaugurated during World War I.

The book, available at last in paperback, explores the politics of the most important Irish nationalist leader of his generation, and one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century Ireland: the Nobel Peace Prize winner, John Hume.

This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War.

Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender.

This book offers a groundbreaking account of the role of media technologies in Indian nationalism and democracy.

This book examines postwar waves of political violence that affected six Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam - from the wars of independence in the mid-twentieth century to the recent Rohingya genocide.

Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia's revolutionary years.

During the four decades separating the presidencies of Lyndon B.

Singh analyses the influence of Xi's 'Chinese Dream' on China's foreign relations and security postures.

The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent.

This major new text assesses the persistence of nationalism in a globalizing world and analyses the current nature and future prospects of this multi-faceted and evolving ideology.

The Poppy is a symbol of British militarism, not a badge of peace.

Bestselling author Stephen Prothero addresses the question of "e;Whose America is this,"e; by exploring American political discourse and the significant texts that make up the living history of the American people.

This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault.

How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world.

Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively little has been written to analyse the possible interaction between the two.

Albert Einstein sah den Nationalismus als eine »Kinderkrankheit, sozusagen die Masern der Menschheit« an.

A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish anarchist movement.

A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two.

This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chavez (19992013) revamped Venezuela's political economy examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez's death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolas Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies.

In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state?

Jonathan Wright explores the events, discusses rival interpretations and places the policies of Hitler in the context of Germany as a whole.

The full history of how the United States targeted and destroyed the Japanese capital from the air, in a ten-month long campaign by the US Army Air Force and the US Navy.

Jenseits der relativ gut erforschten Ebene der österreichischen Bundespolitik bestehen im Bereich der regionalpolitischen Forschung für die Jahre 1933 bis 1938 noch erhebliche Defizite.

The Battle for Britain is a provocative reinterpretation of both British air and naval power from 1909 to 1940.

1886 witnessed the height of a period of violent industrial strife in North America.

This book charts the development of political thought within the British Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats.

On 12 September 1944, a wolfpack of U.

This is the compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini.

En Cultivar el amor por la naturaleza, Elena Villanueva busca hacernos conscientes de nuestra relación con la naturaleza, para que aprendamos a verla como una relación que descansa en lo profundo de nuestra alma.

Thomas Percy Gleave began his RAF career in 1930, three years later becoming a member of the RAF aerobatic team.

What did Hitler really want to achieve: world domination.

How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe?

This book examines the politics of making and unmaking refugees at various scales by probing the contradictions between the principles of international statecraft, which focus on the national/state level approach in regulating global forced displacement, and the forces that defy this state-based approach.

The nine chapter monograph delineates micro-empirico inquiry into the democratic socialization of students of school, college and University of Gaya town in the State of Bihar (India).

The experience of all occupied countries during the Second World War was characterised by severe material shortages.

A leading figure in the American conservative movement for over 40 years, Mickey Edwards was a prominent Republican congressman, a former national chairman of the American Conservative Union, and a founding trustee of the Heritage Foundation.

The American fleet aircraft carrier Hornet is widely acknowledged for the contributions she made to the war effort.

An indispensable resource for those interested in the scourge of mass murder and genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries, this book analyzes modern and contemporary controversies and issues to help readers to understand genocide in all its complexity.

This book is the product of a major British Academy Symposium held in 2007 to mark the centenary of the birth of H.

The definitive English-language collection by the first man to call himself an anarchist.

Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the USSR's struggle for survival against Nazi Germany but millions more returned to Stalin's state after victory.